Bodhidharma

Meditation Retreats

Bodhidharma is fortunate enough to be one of the host centres for the initiations and teachings of Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, the spiritual
master of the Australian Tang Soo Tao Federation.

Born in eastern Tibet in 1948, Rinpoche completed his Acharya (Master's) Degree in Buddhist philosophy at Varanasi Sanskrit University
in 1975, before studying Vipassana meditation and Theravada Buddhist traditions in the forest temples of Thailand.

In 1976, Rinpoche moved to Australia to translate and teach at the Chenrezig Institute for Wisdom Culture in the Sunshine Coast
hinterland, Queensland. It was during this time that our founder, the late Master Robert Caputo, met Rinpoche, beginning a lasting
friendship. In 1980, Zasep Rinpoche accepted the invitation of his Canadian students and moved to British Columbia, Canada, where he still resides today.

Over the past 20 years Rinpoche has given numerous teachings, discourses, commentaries, initiations and meditation retreats for all his students
around the world, including numerous workshops and retreats for the students of Tang Soo Tao. Zasep Rinpoche has now been teaching in the west
for over 20 years. He is knowledgeable in six languages: Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan and English.

He is spiritual director of more than twelve Buddhist meditation centres in Canada, Australia and the United States and we are honoured to have
him as our spiritual master.